The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“The Forgotten Man works and votes—generally he prays—but his chief business in life is to pay.” — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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